Senior Manager, Security Engineering

Oracle•United States,

About The Position

This role is responsible for driving security strategy, overseeing security assessments, guiding the creation and integration of testing tools, and chairing security design and evaluation. The position also involves establishing protocols for security violation escalation, developing and enforcing containment and mitigation strategies for security events, leading post-event reviews, and providing guidance to stakeholders. Additionally, the role includes conducting compliance assessments, ensuring team deliverables meet obligations, and overseeing company asset management. Support for business continuity and disaster recovery planning, readiness assessments for certifications and audits, and guidance on advanced data security techniques are also key aspects. The role fosters research and innovation in industry security, keeps the team informed on emerging trends, and promotes novel problem-solving techniques. Core responsibilities include managing projects, providing direction to teams, fostering cross-functional partnerships, promoting inclusivity, addressing complex operational and technical issues, encouraging continuous learning and improvement, and driving team performance and development through feedback, coaching, and talent acquisition.

Requirements

Experience in security strategy and assessment.
Experience in designing and integrating testing tools.
Experience in security design and evaluation.
Experience in establishing escalation protocols for security violations.
Experience in developing and enforcing protocols for security event containment and mitigation.
Experience in leading post-event review meetings.
Experience in providing guidance on security events and concerns.
Experience in conducting compliance assessments.
Experience in ensuring security compliance deliverables adhere to obligations.
Experience in overseeing inventory, operability, and accountability of company assets.
Experience in guiding the development of business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
Experience in ensuring the availability and resilience of critical systems and data.
Experience in directing readiness assessments for certifications and audits.
Experience in guiding employees on data security techniques (encryption, hashing, masking, access management).
Experience in reviewing documentation and procedures for data security improvements.
Experience in driving industry security knowledge advancement.
Experience in fostering research and innovation in security.
Experience in aligning teams on emerging security trends.
Experience in promoting novel techniques for security problem-solving.
Experience in managing multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives.
Experience in providing direction to teams on project work, priorities, and business alignment.
Experience in guiding teams on adjusting plans for resource or timeline changes.
Experience in driving cross-functional partnerships.
Experience in coaching team members on developing strategic relationships.
Experience in promoting inclusivity and diverse perspectives.
Experience in providing direction on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues.
Experience in guiding analysis of complex data and/or information.
Experience in reviewing and providing insights into unresolved or critical issues.
Experience in continuous learning and staying ahead of industry trends.
Experience in leveraging feedback for personal and team skill improvements.
Experience in identifying skill gaps and empowering team members.
Experience in driving teams to develop and implement process improvements.
Experience in guiding teams to adopt new approaches and methods.
Experience in driving team performance through feedback and coaching.
Experience in discussing development goals and facilitating career development.
Experience in developing and managing talent acquisition pipelines.
Experience in leading candidate interviews.
Experience in monitoring promotion eligibility.
Experience in orchestrating talent resources.

Responsibilities

Drives security strategy, ensuring that organizational goals are met.
Oversees employees working on security assessments across a wide range of complex products and services.
Guides the creation of testing tools and facilitates their integration into engineering workflows, ensuring the team is equipped to identify and address security-related weaknesses efficiently.
Chairs security design and evaluation (e.g., traffic capturing, alerts), ensuring adherence to internal and external obligations, and strengthening security posturing.
Establishes protocols for security violation escalation, managing communication with senior leadership and stakeholders.
Develops and enforces protocols to contain and mitigate security events, coordinating cross-functional response efforts.
Leads post-event review meetings to identify improvement areas, ensuring feedback is incorporated into ongoing security processes.
Provides guidance to stakeholders who come to the security team with security events or concerns.
Conducts compliance assessments and coaches employees providing compliance assessments.
Ensures team's security compliance deliverables adhere to internal and external obligations.
Oversees inventory, operability, and accountability of company assets, implementing robust tracking systems.
Guides the development of business continuity and disaster recovery plans, processes, and procedures.
Ensures the availability and resilience of critical systems and data, overseeing efforts to withstand disruptions.
Directs readiness assessments for certifications and audits, implementing improvements to meet evolving standards.
Guides employees on using advanced tools and techniques for data security such as encryption, hashing, masking, and access management to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of sensitive information.
Oversees the review of documentation and procedures, identifying and implementing improvements in data security practices.
Drives industry security knowledge advancement, fostering research and innovation efforts.
Aligns the team on emerging trends, ensuring shared knowledge of evolving threats and vulnerabilities.
Promotes novel techniques to solve unique security problems, encouraging creative and effective solutions.
Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable are monitored and met.
Provides direction to teams on project work, setting priorities, and aligning with business needs.
Guides teams on adjusting plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.
Drives cross-functional partnerships to align expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams.
Coaches team members to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success.
Promotes inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
Provides direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions.
Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the team to identify potential solutions.
Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning.
Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skill improvements.
Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise in new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization.
Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight.
Guides team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages feedback for continued improvement.
Drives performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
Discusses development goals with team members, shares opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individual goals are aligned with broader organizational goals.
Develops and manages talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.